Attachment Tracking Settings

Overview

As a Confluence Administrator, you can specify which file types to track—such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDFs, Gliffy diagrams, images, and more. This allows you to focus tracking on specific file types to keep Viewtracker reports clear and relevant.

Include or exclude file types

To access or adjust these settings, follow the steps below.

Locate and open Viewtracker's tracking settings (options may vary depending on your Confluence product) as shown here:

In Viewtracker for Confluence Data Center:

Go to the Analytics Cockpit and select Tracking to access the settings.

Entry for the Tracking settings in Confluence DC.

In Viewtracker for Confluence Cloud:

Go to Viewtracker - Global Report, select Manage Tracking and then Tracking.

In the Attachment File Types field, you'll see a list of tracked file types.
1. Click on the dropdown to add or remove file types. Your changes will be saved automatically and the tracking will begin from that point.

Screenshot of the Attachment File Types field.

Note: Existing attachment views (collected before the settings were changed) will remain in the database and will not be deleted. They might show up in the report.

Available file types for tracking

Word

Document
Template
Document with Macro
Template with Macro

Excel

Sheets
CSV
Sheets with Macro
Template with Macro
Add-in with Macro
Binary sheet with macro
Spreadsheet
Spreadsheet with template

Powerpoint

Presentation
Slideshow
Template
Add-in with macro enabled
Presentation with macro
Template with macro
Slideshow with Macro

Images

GIF
PNG
TIF
TIFF
JPEG
BMP
SVG
WEBP
x-icon

Video

MPEG
MSvideo
Webm
MP4
Quicktime video
WMV

Project

Ms proj
MSproject
x-msproject
x-dos MS project

Audio

MP3
WAV
AAC
AIFF
DSD
ALAC
OGG

Other formats:

PDF
Gliffy

Text documents (Cloud only)

Extensions:

TXT
RTF

Differences between file type tracking on Viewtracker on-premise and Cloud:

Data Center/Server: specific MIME types are tracked
Cloud: specific extensions are tracked